2018 Toowoomba Cup Field & Betting: Honey Toast Tops Odds

2018 Toowoomba Cup Field & Betting: Honey Toast Tops Odds

This Saturday in Queensland the Toowoomba Cup 2018 will be run and won in the Darling Downs and the latest markets on the capacity field of stayers has the Ben Currie-trained former champion Honey Toast on top.

2016 champion Honey Toast is tipped as the horse to beat again in Toowoomba Cup 2018 betting this weekend. Photo: Daniel Costello.

Due to run as Race 7 at 4:02pm (AEST), this year’s $100,000 Toowoomba Cup (2000m) attracted the full 14 starters plus two widely-drawn emergencies.

Also out wide in gate 13, into 12 with the spares out, is the current favourite in Toowoomba Cup betting Honey Toast paying $3.70 and firming through Ladbrokes.com.au to post a second win in the autumn showdown.

After opening at $6 for the win the money has come in hard and fast for the Redoute’s Choice seven-year-old who has a top record at the Toowoomba track with two wins and a second from three starts.

Saturday is the gelding’s first run there since saluting in the 2016 Toowoomba Cup results.

Honey Toast had a lengthy break from racing between May of 2016 and February this year and looked back to his better form when a nose beaten over 2030m at Doomben on March 24.

Jim Byrne continues his association with Honey Toast who will also relish a drop back from 58kg last start to 54.5kg on the weekend.

There are four other single-figure hopes in the Toowoomba Cup odds for 2018 including the $4.60 second favourite Doubt Defying chasing a fourth win on the trot from gate six.

The in-form Steven O’Dea-trained Not A Single Doubt four-year-old won twice over the Sunshine Coast mile before heading to the Gold Coast on March 17 for a barnstorming three and a quarter-length win over 1800m.

Doubt Defying gets the chance to prove his potential over further than that for the first time in the Toowoomba Cup and comes off hard-to-knock form.

Equal $5.50 third elects Morendi and Exoteric drawn well in gates five and two respectively follow in the markets.

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